14 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN tural. photographer recorded Paris sites (St. SulplCe, the Louvre, the Tuileries palace before its destruction during the Commune) as ""ell as the viaducts and cast-iron sta tions along the original Paris-to-Marseilles railway. Through Mav 13. ( vVolf 3 0 W. 57 th St. ) W, HARRY CALLAHAN! JOE DEAL-Clapboard houses set against cloudless blue skies figure in these color photographs made in Providence, Rhode Island. Also dye-transfer prints.! Sprawling suburban scenes by a California artist Through Saturday, April 22. (Light, 7 2 4 Fifth Ave., at 57th St.) BARON ADOLF DE MEYER (I869-I946)-Thirty- three photographs of a lithe Nijinsky and some rather sturdy nymphs in the production of "L'A..près-Midi d'un Faune" that scandal- ized Paris in I 9 I 2 These rare photographs were reprinted this year by Richard Benson. Through Saturday, April 15. (Washburn, 4 2 E. 57th St.) JAN GROOVER AND DAVID HAXTON-The vVhitney Museum is presenting an all-color exhibition of Miss Groover's series on Manhattan build- ings and suburban scenes, and of Mr. Hax- ton's abstractions. See below under "Mu- seums," for dates and times. · ELAINE MAYEs-Landscapes; first solo show in New York. Through April 29 (Pfeifer. 825 Madison Ave., at 69th St.) JEANNE MOUTOUSSAMY-Forty-five prints, some in color, devoted to urban and rura] South Afri- ca. Through May 6. (JAM Gallery, 50 W. 57th St.) MARTIN MUNKACSI (I896-I963)-A retrospective of works by this Hungarian photographer, who began his career covering news events in Budapest, gained international fame as a photojournalist in Berlin, and eventuaIly al- tered the pages of Harper's Bazaar with his innovative on-location fashion photographs. Through April 30. (International Center of Photography, 1130 Fifth Ave., at 94th St. Open daily, except Mondays, and Tuesday evenings until 8.) EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE ( I8 3 0 - I 904)-Animal-Ioco- motion studies by the photographer who proved (in 1872, when he was commissioned by Leland Stanford) that a galloping horse does have all four hooves off the ground at one time. Through April 28. (Associated American Artists, 663 Fifth Ave, at 53rd St. Open Mondays.) WALTER ROSENBLUM! riM GIDAL-Documentary photographs of, among other places Haiti the Gaspé, New Y or k City, taken o'ver th past forty years.! Photographs of Europe in the thirties. Through May 13. (vVitkin, 41 E. 57th St.) MICHAEL A. SMITH-Western landscapes. Through April 29. (Freidus, 158 Lafayette St., near Grand St.) EVE SONNEMAN-More of this artist s color photo- graphs (these made in Paris, London, and Greece) mounted in pairs, each of which shows a sequence of events. Through April 29. (Castelli Uptown, 4 E. 77th St.) GROUP SHow-More than a hundred and twenty vintage works by Alfred Stieglitz and mem- bers of the Photo-Secession. Through Wednesday, April 19. (National Arts Club, IS Gramercy Park S. Daily, except Mondays, I to 6.) MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES METROPOLITAN MUSEUM. Fifth Ave. at 82nd St- "The Arts Under Napoleon" is an exhibit that outlines the influence of Napoleon on French craftsmen of the period, with objects ranging from furniture and firearms to silk and silver. Through July 30. . . . fJI Fifteenth- century Italian drawings, many of them shown in sixteenth-century frames, from the Robert Lehman CoIlection. Through June 18. . . . fJI Views of Rome by Giovanni Battista Piranesi and other prints and drawings con- stitute a small show called "Artists in Rome in the Eighteenth Century." Through April 30. . . . fJI An exhibit of about five hundred fancies and frivolities from the costume collection. ( Open daily except Mondays. Hours: Tuesdays, 10 to 8 :45; vVednesdays through Saturdays, 10 to 4 :45; Sundays, I I to 4 :45.) MUSEUM OF MODERN ART. I I W. 53rd St.-A sur- vey of Mexican art. Through June 29.... PHOTOGRAPHY: Group show of street photog- S-M-r-w-r-F-S 16117'181 :: I ::, t 2 raphy. Through April 30 (Open daily, ex- cept vVednesdays, I I to 6, and Thursday eve- nings until 9.) GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM. 1071 Fifth Ave., at 89th St.-"vVillem de Kooning in East Hampton," a show of the noted artist's paintings, draw- ings, and sculptures executed since 1963, when he moved from New York City to Long Island. Through April 23.... fJI Forty-five paintings and sculptures, chiefly by Euro- peans ( Calder and Archi penko are the ex- ceptions; Léger, Bombois, and Matisse are some of the painters), from the Evelyn Sharp Collection. (Open daily except Mondays. Hours: Tuesdays, I I to 8, with no admission charge from 5 to 8; vVednesdays through Sundays, I I to 5.) WHITNEY MUSEUM. 945 Madison Ave., at 75th St.-A Saul Steinberg retrospective of water- colors, drawings, collages, and other works. Starts Friday, April 14.... fJI Duane Han- son's startlingly realistic polyester and fibre- glass casts-twenty-nine pieces in all, includ- ing "Hard Hat," "Rita tbe vVaitress," and "Photographer." Through Sunday, April 16. . . . PHOTOGRAPHY: Color prints by J an Groover and David Haxton. Through April 23. (Open daily except Mondays. Hours: Tuesdays, I I to 9, with no admission charge after 6; Wednesdays through Saturdays I I to 6; Sundays, noon to 6. . . . fJI On Thursday, Apri] 20, at 8, the Cecil Taylor Unit will do some jazz composed by Mr. Taylor. Tickets are now being issued on a first-come. first-served basis.) BROOKLYN MUSEUM, Eastern Parkway-Paintings of indigenous American subj ects-the Ever- glades, New York City playgrounds, Indian reservations-by contemporary artists com- missioned by the Department of the Interior during the Bicentennial year. The painters include Richard Estes, Ellen Lanyon, and Neil VV elliver. Through May 2 I. . . . fJI More than a hundred prints (by N evelson, Tanguy, Dali, Calder, others) made at Stanley vVil- liam Hayter's Atelier 17, now observing its fiftieth anniversary. Through May 14. (Open vVednesdays through Saturdays, 10 to 5; Sundays, noon to 5.) AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. Central Park VV. at 79th St.-The Hall of Mexico and Central America, which houses a coIlec- tion of archeological artifacts dating from 1500 B.C., is but one of a dozen major ex- hibitions at the museum. (Open daily. Hours: vVeekdays, 10 to 4:45, and Wednesday eve- nings until 9; Sundays, I I to 5.) ASIA HOUSE. I 12 E. 64th St.-Paintings, com- missioned from Indian artists primarily by British and other European colonists. that portray the landscapes and customs of India behx.:een 1760 and 1880. Starts Thursday, Apnl 13. (Open daily. Hours: Weekdays, 10 to 5, and Thursday evenings until 8 :30; Sun- days, I to 5.) COOPER-HEWITT MUSEUM. Fifth Ave. at 9ISt St.- A new exhibit of decorative objects (a Breuer chair, a Desfosse wallpaper series, Japanese screen samples) from the museum's vast per- manent collection. Through May 20. (Open daily except Mondays. Hours: Tuesdays, 10 to 9, with no admission charge; vVednesdays through Saturdays, 10 to 5; Sundays, noon to 5.) MORGAN LIBRARY. 29 E. 36th St.-Oxford Uni- versity Press books, type, and type speci- mens in an exhibit that traces that publish- er's five-hundred-year history (1478 to the present). Through May 7.... fJI French and English flower books and drawings, most of them executed by seventeenth- and eight- eenth-century naturalists. Through May 14. (Open daily except Mondays. Hours: Tues- days through Saturdays, 10:30 to 5; Sun- days, I to 5.) MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS. 29 W. 53 rd St.-An encyclopedic accounting of footwear (chopines, high-button shoes, Indian mocca- sins, Japanese clogs, sneakers); representa- \ions of shoes and of feet by Robert i\rneson, Andy vVarhol, t\nn Slavit (one of her con- tributions is a pair of thirty-foot inflated legs that will dangle frorn the museurn's roof); shoes worn by dancers, sports figures, space explorers. Starts Saturday, April 15. (Open daily except Mondays. Hours: Tuesdays through Saturdays, I I to 6; Sun- days, I to 6.) STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM. 2033 Fifth Ave., at I25th St.-A retrospective of the oils and drawings of Beauford Delaney, a Tennessee- born artist w ho worked in Paris between 1953 and 197 I. Through July 2. (Open daily ex- cept Mondays. Hours: Tuesdays through Fridays, 10 to 6, and vVednesday evenings until 9; Saturdays and Sundays, I to 6.) MUSIC (The box-office number for the Metropolitan Opera House is 580-9830, for Avery Fisher I-fall TR 4-2424, for Carnegie Hall CI 7-7459, and for Alice Tully HaIl 362-191 I. Other box- office numbers are included in the listings.) OPERA METROPOLITAN OPERA-Final performances of the season- VV ednesday evening, April 12: "Don Giovanni," with Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Elizabeth Harwood, Roberta Peters, Sherrill Milnes, Stuart Burrows, Donald Gramm, and Allan Monk; conducted by John Pritchard. . . . fJI Thursday evening, April 13: "Tosca," with Teresa Kubiak, Giuseppe Giacomini, Louis Quilico, and Renato Capecchi; James Conlon. . . . fJI Friday evening, April 14: "Die Frau Ohne Schatten," with Leonie Rysanek, Ursula Schröder-Feinen, Mignon Dunn, James King, and vVaIter Berry; Karl Bóhm. . . CjJ Saturday matinée, April IS: "Cavalleria Rusticana," with Tatiana Troyanos, Isola Jones, Jean Kraft, Placido Domingo, and Cornell MacNeil; and "Pagliacci," with Teresa Stratas, Placido Domingo, Cornell :MacNeIl, and Allan Monk. James Levine con- ducting both.... fJI Saturday evening, April 15: "Tosca," with Teresa Kubiak, Giuseppe Giacomini, Louis Quilico, and Renato Ca- pecchi; James Conlon. (Evenings at 8. Mati- nées at 2.) NEW YORK CITY OPERA-Wednesday, April 12, at 8: "The Merry vVidow," with Beverly SiIls, Glenys Fowles. Alan Titus, and Henry Price; conducted by Julius RudeL... fJI Thursday, April 13, at 8: "The Saint of Bleecker Street," with Catherine Malfitano, Sandra Walker, Diana Soviero, Enrico Di Giuseppe, and Irwin Densen; Cal Stewart Kellogg. . . fJI Friday, April 14, at 8: "The Merry Widow," with Beverly Sills, Glenys Fowles. Alan Titus, and Henry Price; Julius Rudel. . . . fJI Saturday, April 15, at 2: "Carmen," with RoseMarie Freni, Sharon Daniels, Jerold N orman, and Richard Fredricks; David Effron. . . . fJI Saturday, April IS, at 8: "Mefis- tofele," with Carmen Hernandez, Sandra vValker, Eunice Hill, Samuel Ramey, and Richard Taylor; Julius RudeL... fJI Sunday, April 16, at I: "The Marriage of Figaro" (in English), with Linda Brinkerhoff, Cather- ine Malfitano, Delia vVallis, David Hollo- way, and Jay vVilloughby; Julius Rudel. . . . fJISunday, April 16, at 7: "II Barbiere di Siviglia," with Gianna Rolandi, Henry Price, and Pablo Elvira; John Mauceri. . . . fJI Tues- day, April 18, at 8: "The Merry vVidow," with Sharon Daniels, Elizabeth Haley, How- ard Hensel, and Henry Price; Lloyd vValser. . . . fJI vVednesday. April I Q, at 9: "The Saint of Bleecker Street," with Catherine Malfi- tano, Sandra VV alker, Diana Soviero, Enrico Di Giuseppe, and Irwin Densen; Cal Stewart Kellogg. . . . fJI Thursday, pri] 20, at 8: "La Bohème," with Mariana Niculescu, Sherry Zannoth, David Rendall, Richard Fredricks, Samuel Ramey, and Thomas Jamerson; John Mauceri. . . . fJI Friday, Apri] 21, at 8: "Mad- ame Butterfly," with Esther Hinds, Diane Curry, Lando Bartolini, and Frederick Bur- chinal; Vincent La Selva.... fJI Saturday, April 22, at 2: "The Marriage of Figaro" (in English) , with Johanna Meier, Gwenlynn Little, Delia vVallis, Samuel Ramey, and vVilliam Justus; Eve Queler. . . . fJI Saturday, t\pril 22, at 8: "Carmen," with RoseMarie Ft:,eni, Sharon Daniels, J erold Norman, and Richard Fredricks; David Effron. (New York State Theatre, Lincoln Center. TR 7- 4727. Through Sunday, April 30.) JUILLIARD AMERICAN OPERA CENTER-Benefit per-